Y12 exam - Media Paper 2: Learner response

 Y12 exam - Media Paper 2: Learner response

        
Create a new blogpost on your Media Coursework blog called 'Media Paper 2 learner response' and work through the following tasks:

1) Type up your feedback in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to). 

WWW: There is lots of potential here. In Q2 you are discussing the right things but need to revise some some misconceptions in order to access the top levels.

EBI: You`ve mixed up active/passive audiences and also Marxism. These are the right things to discuss for this question but you cant get the marks if they are the wrong way around . Revisions will help (your also missed some of those lessons which made it more difficult). 

2) Read the mark scheme for this exam carefully, paying particular attention to the 'indicative content' for each question. Firstly, focus on the unseen question and identify two aspects of the poster that you could have written about in your answer.

  • Satisfactory understanding of the theoretical framework of media demonstrated through engagement with generally obvious or straightforward aspects of the theory and argument.
  • Minimal, if any application of knowledge and understanding to evaluate Hall’s ideas about encoding/decoding.
3) Look at the indicative content for Q1 again and make a note of any theories or examples of media terminology you could have used in your answer.

  • the link between genre and stereotypes – the representation of victim in the thriller/crime drama.
  • the use of props to denote the narrative and genre elements
  •  the use of costume and props to construct teen stereotypes (leather/biker jacket, cat ears,red dress)

4) Now focus on the TV 25-marker. Read this exemplar response for the TV question and pick out three arguments, phrases or theories from the essay that you could use in a future question on Capital and Deutschland 83.

  • socialist. Indeed, an analysis of characters and representations supports this idea of producers promoting a ‘woke’, left-wing agenda. Roger, the upper-middle-class banker is presented largely negatively, famously proclaiming “What use is 30 grand to anyone?”
  • Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony is relevant here as it could be argued that Capital’s relentless focus on the importance of hard work, earning money and contributing to the London economy unconsciously reinforces capitalist ideology.
  • the validity of Hall’s Reception theory. Interestingly, D83 is a text that enjoyed a very different reception globally compared to when first broadcast in Germany. With the period drama based on the relatively recent events of 1983 and the Cold War, perhaps audiences in Germany did not appreciate the representation of the East/West divide and therefore rejected the producers’ preferred reading. Just like Capital, it could be argued D83 has a left-wing bias in its portrayal of different social classes and political perspectives.
5) Finally, identify three things you need to revise for Media Paper 2 before your next assessment or mock exam.
  • quotes and statements from the csp to support my point.
  • the names of the characters.
  • theories tat link to the csp.

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